Maxwell Blowfield

Prague has a new museum, and it’s all about the great Czech artist Alphonse Mucha. The Mucha Museum has just opened its doors in the heart of Czechia’s historic capital, in a restored wing of the Savarin Palace complex which is undergoing massive redevelopment. The museum is dedicated to the work and life of Mucha. He is one of the most prominent artists of the Art Nouveau movement, and his renown has waxed and waned in both life and death.

Opened in early March by the Dutch King Willem-Alexander, the new National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam opened its doors as the Netherlands began a year of commemorations to mark 80 years since its liberation from the Nazis. Eight decades on from that moment — and almost two decades since plans were initiated to create the institution — it is now the first and only museum to tell the history of the persecution of the Jews in the entire Netherlands.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the latest cultural institution to join the world of podcasting. In February, the museum announced it was launching two brand new series that will “explore art’s ability to connect, fascinate, and inspire us,” in part an attempt to lift us all out of the pandemic gloom. But the Met is playing catch up.